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A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…
A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and concord of Christians and are delivered in a book called The cure of church-divisions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
QUEST. IIII.
Quest. 4. IS it not a shameful receding from our Reformation, now to use an unreformed Liturgy, and a pulling down of what we have been building.
Quest. 4. IS it not a shameful receding from our Reformation, now to use an unreformed Liturgie, and a pulling down of what we have been building.
Answ. 1. It is not fit here to enquire who it is that hath pulled down, and destroyed Reformation: though it be easy to discern it. But this is certain, that God hath set up the Government that is over us, and that our Governors take down by their Laws, that which we accounted Reformation: This is not our work, but theirs: And that they permit us not otherwise publicly to worship God. And that a man in Goal doth ordinarily join in no public worship at all. And where men do venture on other manner of worship in forbidden assemblies, the fears of some and the passionate discontent of others, and the disturbances by soldiers and officers, and such like, do take off much of the edification, and hinder us from such a frame of mind as is most agreeable to the work and day. And to worship God no where, is to go farther from Reformation, than to worship him by the Liturgy.
Answ. 1. It is not fit here to enquire who it is that hath pulled down, and destroyed Reformation: though it be easie to discern it. But this is certain, that God hath set up the Government that is over us, and that our Governours take down by their Laws, that which we accounted Reformation: This is not our worke, but theirs: And that they permit us not otherwise publickly to worship God. And that a man in Goal doth ordinarily joyn in no publick worship at all. And where men do venture on other manner of worship in forbidden assemblies, the fears of some and the passionate discontent of others, and the disturbances by souldiers and officers, and such like, do take off much of the edification, and hinder us from such a frame of mind as is most agreeable to the work and day. And to worship God no where, is to go farther from Reformation, than to worship him by the Liturgie.